New Company Car | OBX Connection Message Board (2024)

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Date Posted: 8/16/2024 8:33 AM

Tim, it looks like the radiator is leaking in your spot. You better check that out.

It was an oil leak. The dealer did not tighten the oil pan plug and it leaked.

Date Posted: 8/16/2024 9:24 AM

Date Posted: 8/16/2024 9:25 AM

Tim, it looks like the radiator is leaking in your spot. You better check that out.

It was an oil leak. The dealer did not tighten the oil pan plug and it leaked.

what, what, did you say dealer? That's like VA Beach/Chesapeake?

I bet just forgot the compression/crush washer.

Oh, and a wicked cool car!

Date Posted: 8/16/2024 9:28 AM

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Date Posted: 8/16/2024 11:15 AM

Tim, it looks like the radiator is leaking in your spot. You better check that out.

It was an oil leak. The dealer did not tighten the oil pan plug and it leaked.

what, what, did you say dealer? That's like VA Beach/Chesapeake?

I bet just forgot the compression/crush washer.

Oh, and a wicked cool car!

I had a 5000 mile inspection and oil change at the Norfolk dealer (Volvo) and someone at my office called me to tell me there was an oil puddle under my car's parking spot. I went to my driveway to look under it and it was dripping. The dealer was called ASAP and they sent a mechanic (probably the guy that didn't tighten it) down to my house to fix it. And he did. I gave him lunch money as my thanks.

Date Posted: 8/16/2024 11:38 AM

I had a 5000 mile inspection and oil change at the Norfolk dealer (Volvo) and someone at my office called me to tell me there was an oil puddle under my car's parking spot. I went to my driveway to look under it and it was dripping. The dealer was called ASAP and they sent a mechanic (probably the guy that didn't tighten it) down to my house to fix it. And he did. I gave him lunch money as my thanks.

Oh, the Volvo, I thought (duh, I'm sloooowww) it was the beetle.

Yeah, I'm thinking def wanna stay w the Volvo store while still under warrantee. Excellent (but not surprising) response from the Volvo folks! Super cool of you re the parking lot stain - I know some people that would have them pressure wash the stain :/

Date Posted: 8/16/2024 12:07 PM

I had a 5000 mile inspection and oil change at the Norfolk dealer (Volvo) and someone at my office called me to tell me there was an oil puddle under my car's parking spot. I went to my driveway to look under it and it was dripping. The dealer was called ASAP and they sent a mechanic (probably the guy that didn't tighten it) down to my house to fix it. And he did. I gave him lunch money as my thanks.

Oh, the Volvo, I thought (duh, I'm sloooowww) it was the beetle.

Yeah, I'm thinking def wanna stay w the Volvo store while still under warrantee. Excellent (but not surprising) response from the Volvo folks! Super cool of you re the parking lot stain - I know some people that would have them pressure wash the stain :/

I am not that way, but the stains have gone away after about 9 months.

Date Posted: 8/16/2024 4:22 PM

Date Posted: 8/16/2024 5:28 PM

I got hypothermia just looking at that car. The coldest ride of my life was leaving Great Lakes NAS in February driving to Pensacola Florida.
3 of us in a Beetle we would of burned wood on the floorboards if we could of

You should have been in my friend’s sister’s bug. Her rear floorboard rusted out and the only thing that separated me from the road was a thin piece of wood they put down.

Date Posted: 8/16/2024 5:29 PM

Noticing those orange wheel chocks you might also need a parking brake.

This comment is underrated. :-)

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Date Posted: 8/17/2024 10:34 AM

It's cute. Are they going to get you an engine for your birthday, or hitch it up and tow you around town?

It's not mine, one of the maintenance guys is doing the conversion and did the wrap. Engine is next then I guess someone will drive it around. I hope I get to, it's been a LONG time since I last drove one.

Date Posted: 8/17/2024 10:37 AM

I got hypothermia just looking at that car. The coldest ride of my life was leaving Great Lakes NAS in February driving to Pensacola Florida.
3 of us in a Beetle we would of burned wood on the floorboards if we could of

You are correct. I worked one Christmas holiday from college at a friends dry cleaner business in St Louis. It was a 40 min drive in his VW bus full of dirty laundry. I had to wear a polar jump suit as I drove it because it had no heat or next to none.

Date Posted: 8/17/2024 11:08 AM

I got hypothermia just looking at that car. The coldest ride of my life was leaving Great Lakes NAS in February driving to Pensacola Florida.
3 of us in a Beetle we would of burned wood on the floorboards if we could of

You are correct. I worked one Christmas holiday from college at a friends dry cleaner business in St Louis. It was a 40 min drive in his VW bus full of dirty laundry. I had to wear a polar jump suit as I drove it because it had no heat or next to none.

Years ago, I had a buddy that had a 60-something Beetle and he rigged up a contraption to blow heat from the engine to defrost the windshield, using some old Electrolux vacuum cleaner hoses and other parts. He was quite ingenious.

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Date Posted: 8/18/2024 10:37 AM

My parents (what were they thinking?) rented a small camper to pull behind our beetle all the way from NJ to Florida in 1968. They abandoned the idea when the beetle started doing wheelies as it tried to pull the camper out of the rental location. Thank goodness! The trip was in June. When we hit northern Virginia the temperature was in the high nineties and we had to stop at a motel as my poor sister was throwing up from riding with no air conditioning and of course the rear windows didn’t roll down.

I guess you gotta 5th wheel it?

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Date Posted: 8/18/2024 8:12 PM

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Date Posted: 8/19/2024 8:33 AM

Another VW conversion idea if you are in the mood to have an RV.

OMG...and it's on BAT too!